Scheduling of Finally/Partially Confirmed Activities (SAP Library

Scheduling of Finally/Partially Confirmed Activities

Features

If you schedule a network that has activities with final and partial confirmations, the system schedules as follows.

For partially confirmed activities, the earliest start date is replaced by the actual start date from the confirmation.

The earliest finish date is equal to the actual start date plus the forecast processing time. If you have entered a forecast finish date in the confirmation, scheduling takes the forecast finish date as the earliest finish date. If neither a forecast duration nor a forecast finish date exists, the system then proceeds from the planned duration (basic dates) and adds it to the actual start date.

For the latest start and finish dates, the activities from the start date of the successor are scheduled backwards so that the floats can be calculated for the activity.

If you set the Shift network indicator in the scheduling parameters, you determine whether the actual dates of partially confirmed activities are taken into account. The system schedules using the remaining duration of the activities and starts with the earliest start date of the activities that it has calculated.

For activities with final confirmation, the actual dates determine whether earliest or latest dates are used for the activities. The actual dates you have entered are taken into account when scheduling the predecessors and the successors.